New Orleans attorney Ernest Svenson blogs at ernietheattorney.net. He offered this reflection on the meaning that can be found in Mitch Landrieu's defeat in the New Orleans mayoral race against incumbant Ray Nagin.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin used emergency powers to open a landfill in New Orleans East, bypassing public hearings and city council review. The Vietnamese-American community from a nearby neighborhood staged protest marches in front of city hall to stop the landfill. Au Huynh, a community organizer from Philadelphia, talks about the efforts by Vietnamese-American residents to rebuild their neighborhoods, and to stop the landfill project.